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- the claimed invention was made by, on behalf of, and/or in connection with one or more of the following parties to a joint university corporation research agreement: Princeton University, The University of Southern California, The University of Michigan and Universal Display Corporation.. The agreement was in effect on and before the date the claimed invention was made, and the claimed invention was made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of the agreement.
- the present invention relates to organic light emitting devices. More specifically, the invention relates to organic light emitting devices having multiple emissive layers and multiple exciton formation regions.
- OLEDs organic light emitting devices
- OLEDs 5 organic phototransistors
- organic photovoltaic cells organic photovoltaic cells
- organic photodetectors organic light emitting devices
- organic includes polymeric materials as well as small molecule organic materials that may be used to fabricate organic opto-electronic devices.
- Small molecule refers to any organic material that is not a polymer, and "small molecules” may actually be quite large, Small molecules may include repeat units in some circumstances. For example, using a long chain alkyl group as a substituent does not remove a molecule from the "small molecule” class. Small molecules may also be incorporated into polymers, for example as a pendent group on a polymer backbone or as a part of the backbone. Small molecules may also serve as the core moiety of a dendrimer, which consists of a series of chemical shells built on the core moiety.
- the core moiety of a dendrimer may be a fluorescent or phosphorescent small molecule emitter.
- a dendrimer may be a "small molecule," and it is believed that all dendrimer s currently used in the field of OLEDs are small molecules.
- a small molecule has a well-defined chemical formula with a single molecular weight, whereas a polymer has a chemical formula and a molecular weight thai may vary from molecule to molecule.
- organic includes metal complexes of hydrocarbyl and heteroatom- substituted hydrocarbyl ligands.
- OLEDs make use of thin organic films that emit light when voltage is applied across the device. OLEDs are becoming an increasingly interesting technology for use in applications such as flat panel displays, illumination, and backlighting. Several OLED materials and configurations are described in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,844,363, 6,303,238, and 5,707,745, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
- OLED devices are generally (but not always) intended to emit light through at least one of the electrodes, and one or more transparent electrodes may be useful in an organic opto-electronic devices.
- a transparent electrode material such as indium tin oxide (ITO)
- ITO indium tin oxide
- a transparent top electrode such as disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,703,436 and 5,707,745, which are incorporated by reference in their entireties, may also be used.
- the top electrode does not need to be transparent, and may comprise a thick and reflective metal layer having a high electrical conductivity.
- the bottom electrode may be opaque and / or reflective.
- an electrode does not need to be transparent, using a thicker layer may provide better conductivity, and using a reflective electrode may increase the amount of light emitted through the other electrode, by reflecting light back towards the transparent electrode.
- Fully transparent devices may also be fabricated, where both electrodes are transparent. Side emitting OLEDs may also be fabricated, and one or both electrodes may be opaque or reflective in such devices.
- top means furthest away from the substrate
- bottom means closest to the substrate.
- the bottom electrode is the electrode closest to the substrate, and is generally the first electrode fabricated.
- the bottom electrode has two surfaces, a bottom surface closest to the substrate, and a top surface further away from the substrate.
- a first layer is described as "disposed over” a second layer
- the first layer is disposed further away from substrate.
- a cathode may be described as “disposed over” an anode, even though there are various organic layers in between.
- a first "Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital” (HOMO) or “Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital” (LUMO) energy level is "greater than” or "higher than” a second HOMO or LUMO energy level if the first energy level is closer to the vacuum energy level.
- IP ionization potentials
- a higher HOMO energy level corresponds to an IP having a smaller absolute value (an IP that is less negative).
- a higher LUMO energy level corresponds to an electron affinity (EA) having a smaller absolute value (an EA that is less negative).
- the LUMO energy level of a material is higher than the HOMO energy level of the same material.
- a "higher” HOMO or LUMO energy level appears closer to the top of such a diagram than a "lower” HOMO or LUMO energy level.
- FIG. 1 shows an organic light emitting device having separate electron transport, hole transport, and emissive layers, as well as other layers.
- FIG. 2 shows an inverted organic light emitting device that does not have a separate electron transport layer.
- FIG. 3 shows an organic light emitting device having three separate emissive layers.
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic energy level diagram for a three-EML device.
- FIG. 5A shows a white organic light emitting device having three emissive layers.
- FIGS. 5B-5D show the emissive layers of the device illustrated in FIG. 5 A configured in separate devices.
- FIG. 6 shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device having three emissive layers.
- FIG. 7A shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 7B shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 7C shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 7D shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 7E shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 7F shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 7G shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 8A shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 8B shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 9A shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 9B shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 1OA shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 1OB shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 1 IA shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 1 IB shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 12 shows the spectra of a three-emissive layer white-emitting OLED at various current densities.
- FIG. 13 shows the interpreted ratio of contribution of red, green, and blue emission in the spectra shown in FIG. 12 plotted as a function of current density.
- FIG. 14 shows the spectra of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three -emissive layer device.
- FIG. 15 shows the efficiencies of an organic light emitting device incorporating features from a three-emissive layer device.
- FIG. 16 shows a schematic diagram of an optimized three-emissive layer OLED.
- FIG. 17 shows the forward-viewing EQE and PE as functions of current density of a three-emissive layer white OLED.
- FIG. 18 shows the electroluminescence spectra at various current densities for a three-emissive layer white OLED.
- an OLED comprises at least one organic layer disposed between and electrically connected to an anode and a cathode.
- the anode injects holes and the cathode injects electrons into the organic layer(s).
- the injected holes and electrons each migrate toward the oppositely charged electrode.
- an "exciton” which is a localized electron-hole pair having an excited energy state, is formed.
- Light is emitted when the exciton relaxes via a photoemissive mechanism.
- the exciton may be localized on an excimer or an exciplex. Non-radiative mechanisms, such as thermal relaxation, may also occur, but are generally considered undesirable.
- the initial OLEDs used emissive molecules that emitted light from their singlet states ("fluorescence") as disclosed, for example, in U.S. Patent No. 4,769,292, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety. Fluorescent emission generally occurs in a time frame of less than 10 nanoseconds.
- Phosphorescence has been demonstrated. Baldo et al., "Highly Efficient Phosphorescent Emission from Organic Electroluminescent Devices," Nature, vol. 395, 151-154, 1998; (“Baldo-I”) and Baldo et al., “Very high-efficiency green organic light-emitting devices based on electrophosphorescence,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 75, No. 1, 4-6 (1999) (“Baldo-II”), which are incorporated by reference in their entireties. Phosphorescence may be referred to as a "forbidden” transition because the transition requires a change in spin states, and quantum mechanics indicates that such a transition is not favored.
- phosphorescence generally occurs in a time frame exceeding at least 10 nanoseconds, and typically greater than 100 nanoseconds. If the natural radiative lifetime of phosphorescence is too long, triplets may decay by a non-radiative mechanism, such that no light is emitted. Organic phosphorescence is also often observed in molecules containing heteroatoms with unshared pairs of electrons at very low temperatures. 2,2'-bipyridine is such a molecule. Non-radiative decay mechanisms are typically temperature dependent, such that an organic material that exhibits phosphorescence at liquid nitrogen temperatures typically does not exhibit phosphorescence at room temperature. But, as demonstrated by Baldo, this problem may be addressed by selecting phosphorescent compounds that do phosphoresce at room temperature.
- Representative emissive layers include doped or un- doped phosphorescent organometallic materials such as disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,303,238 and 6,310,360; U.S. Patent Application Publication Nos. 2002-0034656; 2002-0182441; 2003- 0072964; and WO-02/074015.
- the excitons in an OLED are believed to be created in a ratio of about
- Phosphorescence may be preceded by a transition from a triplet excited state to an intermediate non-triplet state from which the emissive decay occurs.
- organic molecules coordinated to lanthanide elements often phosphoresce from excited states localized on the lanthanide metal.
- such materials do not phosphoresce directly from a triplet excited state but instead emit from an atomic excited state centered on the lanthanide metal ion.
- the europium diketonate complexes illustrate one group of these types of species.
- Phosphorescence from triplets can be enhanced over fluorescence by confining, preferably through bonding, the organic molecule in close proximity to an atom of high atomic number. This phenomenon, called the heavy atom effect, is created by a mechanism known as spin-orbit coupling. Such a phosphorescent transition may be observed from an excited metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) state of an organometallic molecule such as tris(2-phenylpyridine)iridium(III).
- MLCT excited metal-to-ligand charge transfer
- triplet energy refers to an energy corresponding to the highest energy feature discernable in the phosphorescence spectrum of a given material.
- the highest energy feature is not necessarily the peak having the greatest intensity in the phosphorescence spectrum, and could, for example, be a local maximum of a clear shoulder on the high energy side of such a peak.
- Device 100 may include a substrate 110, an anode 115, a hole injection layer 120, a hole transport layer 125, an electron blocking layer 130, an emissive layer 135, a hole blocking layer 140, an electron transport layer 145, an electron injection layer 150, a protective layer 155, and a cathode 160.
- Cathode 160 is a compound cathode having a first conductive layer 162 and a second conductive layer 164.
- Device 100 may be fabricated by depositing the layers described, in order.
- Substrate 1 10 may be any suitable substrate that provides desired structural properties.
- Substrate 1 10 may be flexible or rigid.
- Substrate 110 may be transparent, translucent or opaque.
- Plastic and glass are examples of preferred rigid substrate materials.
- Plastic and metal foils are examples of preferred flexible substrate materials.
- Substrate 110 may be a semiconductor material in order to facilitate the fabrication of circuitry.
- substrate 110 may be a silicon wafer upon which circuits are fabricated, capable of controlling OLEDs subsequently deposited on the substrate. Other substrates may be used.
- the material and thickness of substrate 1 10 may be chosen to obtain desired structural and optical properties.
- Anode 115 may be any suitable anode that is sufficiently conductive to transport holes to the organic layers.
- the material of anode 115 preferably has a work function higher than about 4 eV (a "high work function material")- Preferred anode materials include conductive metal oxides, such as indium tin oxide (ITO) and indium zinc oxide (IZO) 5 aluminum zinc oxide (AIZnO), and metals.
- Anode 115 (and substrate 110) may be sufficiently transparent to create a bottom-emitting device.
- a preferred transparent substrate and anode combination is commercially available ITO (anode) deposited on glass or plastic (substrate).
- a flexible and transparent substrate-anode combination is disclosed in United States Patent Nos.
- Anode 115 may be opaque and / or reflective.
- a reflective anode 1 15 may be preferred for some top-emitting devices, to increase the amount of light emitted from the top of the device.
- the material and thickness of anode 1 15 may be chosen to obtain desired conductive and optical properties. Where anode 1 15 is transparent, there may be a range of thickness for a particular material that is thick enough to provide the desired conductivity, yet thin enough to provide the desired degree of transparency. Other anode materials and structures may be used.
- Hole transport layer 125 may include a material capable of transporting holes.
- Hole transport layer 130 may be intrinsic (undoped), or doped. Doping may be used to enhance conductivity.
- ⁇ -NPD and TPD are examples of intrinsic hole transport layers.
- An example of a p-doped hole transport layer is m-MTDATA doped with F 4 -TCNQ at a molar ratio of 50:1, as disclosed in United States Patent Application Publication No. 2003-0230980 to Forrest et al., which is incorporated by reference in its entirety. Other hole transport layers may be used.
- Emissive layer 135 may include an organic material capable of emitting light when a current is passed between anode 115 and cathode 160.
- emissive layer 135 contains a phosphorescent emissive material, although fluorescent emissive materials may also be used. Phosphorescent materials are preferred because of the higher luminescent efficiencies associated with such materials.
- Emissive layer 135 may also comprise a host material capable of transporting electrons and / or holes, doped with an emissive material that may trap electrons, holes, and / or excitons, such that excitons relax from the emissive material via a photoemissive mechanism.
- Emissive layer 135 may comprise a single material that combines transport and emissive properties.
- emissive layer 135 may comprise other materials, such as dopants that tune the emission of the emissive material.
- Emissive layer 135 may include a plurality of emissive materials capable of, in combination, emitting a desired spectrum of light. Examples of phosphorescent emissive materials include Ir(p ⁇ y) 3 . Examples of fluorescent emissive materials include DCM and DMQA. Examples of host materials include AIq 3 , CBP and mCP. Examples of emissive and host materials are disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 6,303,238 to Thompson et al,, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- Emissive material may be included in emissive layer 135 in a number of ways.
- an emissive small molecule may be incorporated into a polymer. This may be accomplished by several ways: by doping the small molecule into the polymer either as a separate and distinct molecular species; or by incorporating the small molecule into the backbone of the polymer, so as to form a co-polymer; or by bonding the small molecule as a pendant group on the polymer.
- Other emissive layer materials and structures may be used.
- a small molecule emissive material may be present as the core of a dendrimer.
- Electron transport layer 145 may include a material capable of transporting electrons. Electron transport layer 145 may be intrinsic (undoped), or doped. Doping may be used to enhance conductivity. AIq 3 is an example of an intrinsic electron transport layer. An example of an n-doped electron transport layer is BPhen doped with Li at a molar ratio of 1 : 1 , as disclosed in United States Patent Application Publication No. 2003-02309890 to Forrest et al., which is incorporated by reference in its entirety. Other electron transport layers may be used.
- the charge carrying component of the electron transport layer may be selected such that electrons can be efficiently injected from the cathode into the LUMO (Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital) energy level of the electron transport layer.
- the "charge carrying component” is the material responsible for the LUMO energy level that actually transports electrons. This component may be the base material, or it may be a dopant.
- the LUMO energy level of an organic material may be generally characterized by the electron affinity of that material and the relative electron injection efficiency of a cathode may be generally characterized in terms of the work function of the cathode material.
- the preferred properties of an electron transport layer and the adjacent cathode may be specified in terms of the electron affinity of the charge carrying component of the ETL and the work function of the cathode material.
- the work function of the cathode material is preferably not greater than the electron affinity of the charge carrying component of the electron transport layer by more than about 0.75 eV, more preferably, by not more than about 0.5 eV. Similar considerations apply to any layer into which electrons are being injected.
- Cathode 160 may be any suitable material or combination of materials known to the art, such that cathode 160 is capable of conducting electrons and injecting them into the organic layers of device 100.
- Cathode 160 may be transparent or opaque, and may be reflective.
- Metals and metal oxides are examples of suitable cathode materials.
- Cathode 160 may be a single layer, or may have a compound structure.
- Figure 1 shows a compound cathode 160 having a thin metal layer 162 and a thicker conductive metal oxide layer 164.
- preferred materials for the thicker layer 164 include ITO, IZO, and other materials known to the art.
- cathodes including compound cathodes having a thin layer of metal such as Mg: Ag with an overlying transparent, electrically-conductive, sputter-deposited ITO layer.
- the part of cathode 160 that is in contact with the underlying organic layer, whether it is a single layer cathode 160, the thin metal layer 162 of a compound cathode, or some other part, is preferably made of a material having a work function lower than about 4 eV (a "low work function material").
- Other cathode materials and structures may be used.
- Blocking layers may be used to reduce the number of charge carriers (electrons or holes) and / or excitons that leave the emissive layer.
- An electron blocking layer 130 may be disposed between emissive layer 135 and the hole transport layer 125, to block electrons from leaving emissive layer 135 in the direction of hole transport layer 125.
- a hole blocking layer 140 may be disposed between emissive Iayerl35 and electron transport layer 145, to block holes from leaving emissive layer 135 in the direction of electron transport layer 145.
- Blocking layers may also be used to block excitons from diffusing out of the emissive layer. The theory and use of blocking layers is described in more detail in United States Patent No. 6,097,147 and United States Patent Application Publication No. 2003-02309890 to Forrest et al., which are incorporated by reference in their entireties.
- blocking layer means that the layer provides a barrier that significantly inhibits transport of charge carriers and/or excitons through the device, without suggesting that the layer necessarily completely blocks the charge carriers and/or excitons.
- the presence of such a blocking layer in a device may result in substantially higher efficiencies as compared to a similar device lacking a blocking layer.
- a blocking layer may be used to confine emission to a desired region of an OLED.
- injection layers comprise a material that may improve the injection of charge carriers from one layer, such as an electrode or an organic layer, into an adjacent organic layer. Injection layers may also perform a charge transport function.
- hole injection layer 120 may be any layer that improves the injection of holes from anode 1 15 into hole transport layer 125.
- CuPc is an example of a material that may be used as a hole injection layer from an ITO anode 115, and other anodes.
- electron injection layer 150 may be any layer that improves the injection of electrons into electron transport layer 145.
- LiF / Al is an example of a material that may be used as an electron injection layer into an electron transport layer from an adjacent layer. Other materials or combinations of materials may be used for injection layers.
- injection layers may be disposed at locations different than those shown in device 100. More examples of injection layers are provided in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/931,948 to Lu et al., which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- a hole injection layer may comprise a solution deposited material, such as a spin-coated polymer, e.g., PEDOT :PSS, or it may be a vapor deposited small molecule material, e.g., CuPc or MTDATA.
- a hole injection layer may planarize or wet the anode surface so as to provide efficient hole injection from the anode into the hole injecting material.
- a hole injection layer may also have a charge carrying component having HOMO (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital) energy levels that favorably match up, as defined by their herein-described relative ionization potential (IP) energies, with the adjacent anode layer on one side of the HIL and the hole transporting layer on the opposite side of the HIL.
- the "charge carrying component” is the material responsible for the HOMO energy level that actually transports holes. This component may be the base material of the HIL, or it may be a dopant.
- a doped HIL allows the dopant to be selected for its electrical properties, and the host to be selected for morphological properties such as wetting, flexibility, toughness, etc.
- Preferred properties for the HIL material are such that holes can be efficiently injected from the anode into the HIL material.
- the charge carrying component of the HIL preferably has an IP not more than about 0.7 eV greater that the ⁇ P of the anode material. More preferably, the charge carrying component has an IP not more than about 0.5 eV greater than the anode material. Similar considerations apply to any layer into which holes are being injected.
- HIL materials are further distinguished from conventional hole transporting materials that are typically used in the hole transporting layer of an OLED in that such HIL materials may have a hole conductivity that is substantially less than the hole conductivity of conventional hole transporting materials.
- the thickness of the HIL of the present invention may be thick enough to help planarize or wet the surface of the anode layer. For example, an HIL thickness of as little as 10 nm may be acceptable for a very smooth anode surface. However, since anode surfaces tend to be very rough, a thickness for the HIL of up to 50 nm may be desired in some cases.
- a protective layer may be used to protect underlying layers during subsequent fabrication processes.
- the processes used to fabricate metal or metal oxide top electrodes may damage organic layers, and a protective layer may be used to reduce or eliminate such damage.
- protective layer 155 may reduce damage to underlying organic layers during the fabrication of cathode 160.
- a protective layer has a high carrier mobility for the type of carrier that it transports (electrons in device 100), such that it does not significantly increase the operating voltage of device 100.
- CuPc, BCP, and various metal phthalocyanines are examples of materials that may be used in protective layers. Other materials or combinations of materials may be used.
- protective layer 155 is preferably thick enough that there is little or no damage to underlying layers due to fabrication processes that occur after organic protective layer 160 is deposited, yet not so thick as to significantly increase the operating voltage of device 100.
- Protective layer 155 may be doped to increase its conductivity.
- a CuPc or BCP protective layer 160 may be doped with Li.
- a more detailed description of protective layers may be found in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/931,948 to Lu et aL, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- FIG. 2 shows an inverted OLED 200.
- the device includes a substrate 210, an cathode 215, an emissive layer 220, a hole transport layer 225, and an anode 230.
- Device 200 may be fabricated by depositing the layers described, in order. Because the most common OLED configuration has a cathode disposed over the anode, and device 200 has cathode 215 disposed under anode 230, device 200 may be referred to as an "inverted" OLED. Materials similar to those described with respect to device 100 may be used in the corresponding layers of device 200. Figure 2 provides one example of how some layers may be omitted from the structure of device 100.
- FIGS, 1 and 2 The simple layered structure illustrated in FIGS, 1 and 2 is provided by way of non-limiting example, and it is understood that embodiments of the invention may be used in connection with a wide variety of other structures.
- the specific materials and structures described are exemplary in nature, and other materials and structures may be used.
- Functional OLEDs may be achieved by combining the various layers described in different ways, or layers may be omitted entirely, based on design, performance, and cost factors. Other layers not specifically described may also be included. Materials other than those specifically described may be used. Although many of the examples provided herein describe various layers as comprising a single material, it is understood that combinations of materials, such as a mixture of host and dopant, or more generally a mixture, may be used. Also, the layers may have various sublayers.
- hole transport layer 225 transports holes and injects holes into emissive layer 220, and may be described as a hole transport layer or a hole injection layer.
- an OLED may be described as having an "organic layer" disposed between a cathode and an anode. This organic layer may comprise a single layer, or may further comprise multiple layers of different organic materials as described, for example, with respect to Figures 1 and 2.
- OLEDs comprising polymeric materials (PLEDs) such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,247,190, Friend et at, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- PLEDs polymeric materials
- OLEDs having a single organic layer may be used.
- OLEDs may be stacked, for example as described in U.S. Patent No. 5,707,745 to Forrest et al, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- the OLED structure may deviate from the simple layered structure illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.
- the substrate may include an angled reflective surface to improve out-coupling, such as a mesa structure as described in U.S. Patent No.
- any of the layers of the various embodiments may be deposited by any suitable method.
- preferred methods include thermal evaporation, ink-jet, such as described in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,013,982 and 6,087,196, which are incorporated by reference in their entireties, organic vapor phase deposition (OVPD) 3 such as described in U.S. Patent No.
- deposition by organic vapor jet printing such as described in U.S. Patent Application No. 10/233,470, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
- suitable deposition methods include spin coating and other solution based processes. Solution based processes are preferably carried out in nitrogen or an inert atmosphere.
- preferred methods include thermal evaporation.
- Preferred patterning methods include deposition through a mask, cold welding such as described in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,294,398 and 6,468,819, which are incorporated by reference in their entireties, and patterning associated with some of the deposition methods such as ink-jet and OVJP. Other methods may also be used.
- the materials to be deposited may be modified to make them compatible with a particular deposition method.
- substituents such as alkyl and aryl groups, branched or unbranched, and preferably containing at least 3 carbons, may be used in small molecules to enhance their ability to undergo solution processing. Substituents having 20 carbons or more may be used, and 3-20 carbons is a preferred range. Materials with asymmetric structures may have better solution processibility than those having symmetric structures, because asymmetric materials may have a lower tendency to recrystallize. Dendrimer substituents may be used to enhance the ability of small molecules to undergo solution processing.
- Devices fabricated in accordance with embodiments of the invention may be incorporated into a wide variety of consumer products, including flat panel displays, computer monitors, televisions, billboards, lights for interior or exterior illumination and / or signaling, heads up displays, fully transparent displays, flexible displays, laser printers, telephones, cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptop computers, digital cameras, camcorders, viewfinders, micro-displays, vehicles, a large area wall, theater or stadium screen, or a sign.
- PDAs personal digital assistants
- Various control mechanisms may be used to control devices fabricated in accordance with the present invention, including passive matrix and active matrix.
- WOLEDs White organic light emitting devices
- EML emission layer
- FIG. 3 shows an exemplary device having three emissive layers 301, 302, 303 disposed between a cathode 340 and an anode/substrate 310.
- the device may include other layers 320, 330 as previously described, such injection layers, blocking layers, and transport layers, and may be fabricated by depositing the layers shown in order.
- each emissive layer 301, 302, 303 is adapted to emit a different spectrum of light. It may be preferred that a combined emission of the organic emissive layers sufficiently spans the visible spectrum to produce white light.
- three emissive layers 301, 302, 303 may emit red, green, and blue light, respectively.
- each emissive layer may include a host material and a dopant.
- the host material for each emissive layer may be the same or it may be different. Any combination of dopants may be used.
- the dopant in each emissive layer emits a different spectrum of light than at least one other dopant, and more preferably each dopant emits a different spectrum of light.
- HOMO-LUMO gaps may be used as hosts in the three EMLs.
- the layers may be doped with red, green, and blue dopants respectively if a white-emitting device is desired. Other dopant combinations may be used. Phosphorescent dopants may be preferred, though any suitable dopant may be used.
- These three bipolar layers may result in exciton formation in multiple regions, instead of at one interface as in conventional device structures. This expansion of the exciton generation region may suppress or reduce exciton annihilation effects, which may allow formed excitons more chances to radiatively decay through phosphors in all the exciton formation regions. This may lead to noticeably higher efficiencies of this device, even compared to mono-color OLEDs.
- Materials used in a multiple-EML device may be selected to have energy levels that are aligned to energy levels of adjacent materials.
- a HOMO or LUMO energy level is "aligned" to an energy level of an adjacent material if the energy level and the HOMO or LUMO are within about 15 kT, more preferably about 10-15 kT, and more preferably about 5-10 kT of each other.
- energy levels are "aligned” when they are within about 0.4 eV, more preferably about 0.25-0.4 eV, and more preferably about 0.1-0.25 eV of each other.
- exciton formation within each layer and/or at each interface may increase, providing for more efficient exciton formation and emission than occurs in conventional devices.
- energy levels of adjacent emissive layer host and dopant materials are aligned, more charge carriers may transition directly to dopant molecules from adjacent layers.
- FIG. 4 shows an exemplary energy level diagram for a three-EML device, where each emissive layer defines an exciton formation region.
- Three emissive layers 420, 430, 440 may be disposed between outer layers 410, 450. These layers may be electrodes, charge injection layers, and/or charge transport layers as previously described.
- layer 410 may be an anode or other layer that injects holes
- layer 450 may be a cathode or other layer that injects electrons.
- FIG. 4 shows the energy levels of each emissive layer host (solid lines) and the corresponding dopant (dashed lines) relative to the vacuum energy level 401.
- electrons are described as moving across the LUMO levels of each layer from the cathode 450 to the anode 410, with transitions from a lower LUMO to a higher LUMO being preferred.
- an electron moving from the injecting layer 450 to the third emissive layer 440 typically will transition to the LUMO of the emissive layer host material.
- both the LUMO of the host and the LUMO of the dopant are aligned with the LUMO of the injecting layer 450, some electrons may transition to each host and dopant energy level.
- the LUMO energy levels of both the host and dopant of the second emissive layer 430 are aligned to the LUMO level of the emissive layer 440 host, some electrons may transition to each of the host and dopant LUMO levels of the second layer 430.
- more electrons may localize on dopant molecules in each layer than would be expected based on a conventional analysis of a single emissive layer. Since the electrons can transition to adjacent dopant and host energy levels, there may be a reduced build-up of charge at the layer interface.
- holes typically would be described as moving across the HOMO levels of the layers from the anode 410 to the cathode 450, with transitions from a higher energy level to a lower level being preferred.
- some holes also may transition to dopant molecules.
- holes may transition from the first emissive layer 420 HOMO level to both the host and dopant HOMO energy levels of the second emissive layer 430.
- the third emissive layer 440 may be the "last chance" for holes to form an exciton, since there are no further transitions available that would place the hole in another emissive layer.
- the host energy level of the emissive layer 440 may not be aligned with the host HOMO of the previous emissive layer 430. This may prevent or inhibit hole transitions to the host HOMO, and increase or encourage transitions to the dopant HOMO. As more holes are "forced" to transition to the dopant the chance of exciton formation may be increased, which may improve the efficiency of the device.
- FIG. 5A An exemplary three-EML white OLED (WOLED) is shown in FIG. 5A.
- the device may be described as the combination and development of three mono-color devices, as sown in FIGS. 5B-D, with the following structures and characteristics: Device Structure Max. EQE
- MCP works as an electron blocking layer (EBL), and has a smaller HOMO-LUMO gap compared to the host material UGH2 in the EML.
- EBL electron blocking layer
- HIL hole injection
- TCTA functions similarly in these 2 aspects in the green device.
- the single-color devices all have maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQE) of less than 10%.
- the MCP and TCTA layers are doped with Ir(ppy) 3 and PQIr respectively.
- each of these layers functions as both an EML for longer- wavelength emission, and as a EBL/HIL to the adjacent shorter- wavelength EML to its right.
- Electrons and holes that enter the multi-EML system via bipolar host materials are slowed down, and are more likely to recombine in the 3 doped EMLs rather than highly accumulating at the high barrier of the interfaces as would be expected in a conventional single- EML device.
- the expanded exciton generation region can depress the exciton annihilation effect due to reduced local density of excitons, and thus lead to higher EQE of 16.6% and PE of 32 lm/W.
- the EQE is 12.3% and the PE is 15.5 ImAV.
- the efficiency performances are shown in FIG. 6. Noticeably, the EQE of the 3-EML WOLED is higher than the mono-color OLEDs discussed above. This confirms the excitons are better utilized in the multi-exciton- generation-region WOLED.
- FIGS. 7A-B 6.8% 9.1 InVW 03 mA/cm 2 (701) 0.5 mA/cm 2 (702) 1 mA/cm 2 (703) 3 mA/cm 2 (704) 10 mA/cm 2 (705) 30 mA/cm 2 (706) 50 mA/cm 2 (707) 100 niA/cm 2 (708)
- FIGS. 7C-D 7.0% 8.7 Im/ W 0.3 mA/cm 2 (711)
- FIGS. 7E-F 5.6% 5.1 InVW 0.3 mA/cm 2 (721) 0.5 mA/cm 2 (722) 1 mA/cm 2 (723) 10 mA/cm 2 (724) 100 mA/cm 2 (725)
- FIG. 7G shows the spectra of these 3 devices at 1 mA/cm 2 and 100 mA/cm 2 :
- FIG. 7G Reference Current Density MCP Thickness
- FIG. 8B shows the efficiencies for the same device.
- FIG. 9A Another series of devices (Series B) were also fabricated using the following structures: NPD 37nm /TCTA 4nm/ PQInTCTA 4nm/ (REGION B) / 22% FIr6:UGH2 20nm/BCP 40nm .
- the spectra for device with (REGION B) MCP 1 lorn (EQE 14.0%) at current densities of 0.3 mA/cm 2 (910), 0.5 mA/cm 2 (920), 1.0 mA/cra 2 (930), 10 mA/cm 2 (940), 30 mA/cm 2 (950), and 100 mA/cm 2 (960) are shown in FIG. 9A.
- the device exhibited an EQE of 6.3% and PE of 7.5 lm/W as shown in FIG. 9B.
- the weak PQIr emission and the increasing trend of it with increasing J are consistent with the above Series A devices with x>7nm.
- FIG. 1 OA shows the spectra for a device where (REGION B) - MCP 7nm /1 %
- FIG. 1 IB shows the efficiencies as functions of current density for the same devices.
- the PQIr emission becomes much stronger, and the relative PQIr emission and relative Ir(ppy) 3 emission become weaker as J increases. Therefore, it is believed that PQIr emission is mainly due to the energy transfer from the Ir(ppy) 3 triplets, which can migrate more than 1 lnm from the MCP/UGH2 interface.
- FIG. 12 shows the spectra of a three-EML WOLED at current densities of 0.3 mA/cm 2 (1210), 0.5 mA/cm 2 (1220), 1.0 mA/cm 2 (1230), 3.0 mA/cm 2 (1240), 10 mA/cm 2 (1250), 30 mA/cm 2 (1260), and 100 mA/cm 2 (1270).
- the current density increases from 1 to 100 mA/cm 2
- the CIE coordinates shift from (0.340, 0.387) to (0.370, 0.403), and the CRI values remain at 81.
- the three-EML (red/green/blue) WOLED structure described herein differs from previous devices that used a common host, and hence a single exciton formation region, with its inherent difficulty in obtaining efficient energy transfer from the host to all the three dopants. Also, previously demonstrated 3-EML fluorescent WOLEDs have limited device efficiencies due to the short singlet diffusion length, although excitons in those cases may possibly form in multiple regions across the EML. Finally, the expanded EML prevents the formation of a region of very high exciton density, thereby enhancing efficiency by reducing quenching. [0083]
- the materials and structures described herein may have applications in devices other than OLEDs. For example, other optoelectronic devices such as organic solar cells and organic photodetectors may employ the materials and structures. More generally, organic devices, such as organic transistors, may employ the materials and structures.
- PEDOT:PSS an aqueous dispersion of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) with poly sty renesulfonate (PSS) hfac hexafluoroacetylacetonate U-COD 1,5-cyclooctadiene
- Multi-EML OLEDs were prepared in high- vacuum ( 10-7 Torr) by thermal evaporation of organic layers onto glass substrates precoated with a clean, 150-rrm-thick, -20 ⁇ /sq indium tin oxide (ITO) layer using procedures published elsewhere.14
- ITO indium tin oxide
- a 40-nm-thick film of 4,4'-bis[N-(l-naphthyl)- N-phenyl-amino]-biphenyl (NPD) as the hole transport layer (HTL) was deposited, followed by the multiple-section EML, and then capped by an electron transport layer (ETL) of either a 40-nm-thick 2 ?
- NPD 40nm
- HIL hole injection layer
- EML 20nm
- BCP 40nm
- HIL hole injection layer
- PQIr 4,4'
- TCTA 4"-tris-(N-carbazolyl)-triphenylamine
- Ir(ppy)3 N,N'-dicarbazolyl ⁇ 3,5-benzene
- mCP/8wt% FIr6 j p-bis-(triphenylsilyly)benzene (UGH2) for blue emission.
- FIG. 14 shows the schematic energy level diagrams of the three devices.
- the highest occupied (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies are extracted from the literature.
- These monochromatic devices exhibit peak forward- viewing external quantum efficiencies (EQE) between (7.4 ⁇ 0.5)% and (10.8 ⁇ 0.6)% as shown in FIG. 15, which is typical of electrophosphorescent OLEDs based on these dopants.
- EQE peak forward- viewing external quantum efficiencies
- TCTA/mCP/UGH2 to form a stepped progression of HOMO levels from TCTA (5.7eV), to mCP (5.9eV), to UGH2 (7.2 eV).
- the energy barrier for holes is larger at the mCP/UGH2 interface compared to that at the TCTA/mCP interface, resulting in a larger exciton density at the former interface.
- FIr6 was doped at 20wt% in UGH2 to promote charge injection directly onto the dopant.
- the white color balance and the efficiency of the 3- EML WOLED were optimized by adjusting the doping levels and the thicknesses of the red and green EMLs.
- the optimized structure is NPD (40nm)/4wt% PQIr:TCTA (5nm)/2wt% Ir(ppy)3:mCP (8nm)/20wt% FIr6:UGH2 (20nm)/ETL (40nm) as shown in FIG. 16.
- the ETL consists of a 20-nm-thick BPhen layer followed by a second, 20-nm-thick BPhen layer mixed with Li in a 1: 1 molar ratio to reduce the drive voltage, and thus enhance the power efficiency (PE).
- WOLED are shown in FIG. 17.
- the EQE is significantly higher than for the optimized monochrome devices fabricated using the same material combinations. This provides strong evidence that exciton formation occurs in multiple zones within the three-EML WOLED.
- FIG. 18 shows the electroluminescence spectra at various current densities.
- CIE Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage
- the external quantum efficiency of the 3 -EML WOLED is higher than that of the monochromatic devices in using the same dopants since a) a large fraction of excitons generated at the hole injection layer (HIL)/EML interface in the monochromatic devices diffuse to the HIL side and eventually decay through non-radiative or low-efficiency emission channels on the undoped HIL molecules; and b) the energy barrier to holes at HTL/HIL interface in the monochromatic devices may result in exciton formation away from the doped EML, preventing diffusion into the emission region.
- HIL hole injection layer
- the efficiency of the 3 -EML WOLED is also higher than for previously reported all ⁇ phosphorescent-doped WOLEDs with high CRI, primarily due to the stepped progression of HOMO levels of the hosts that forms a series of energy barriers to hole transport. This allows a distribution of excitons to form in multiple regions.
- the host in each EML has its HOMO (or LUMO) energy aligned to the HOMO (or LUMO) of the dopant in the adjacent EML.
- the HOMO of mCP aligns with that of FIr6 (6JeV) 5 and TCTA (5.7eV) with Ir(ppy) 3 (5.4eV)
- the LUMO of UGH2 aligns with that of Ir(ppy) 3 (2.6eV).
- the resulting dopant cations (anions) capture electrons (holes) from the host to form excitons, leading to further broadening of the exciton formation regions, and high efficiency even at high brightness.
- WOLED composed of three separate phosphorescent emission layers as described herein may exhibit a distribution of excitons formation in multiple regions across the broad EML.
- the selection of dopant-host materials and their deposition sequence in the EMLs leads to high efficiency at high brightness required for interior illumination applications.
- the WOLED has near unity internal quantum efficiency achieved using conventional commercially-available dopants.
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